Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2018/01/31/the-story-behind-totos-afr.html
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God’s using me for an instrument here!'
He sure is buddy.
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I hate the lyrics, which are kinda stupid and possibly even offensive, yet love the song enough that I could happily listen to it several times in a row. I’m having a hard time imagining people dancing to it, though.
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Give it a try one step out of key, and off beat:
There are people who don’t love Toto’s Africa?
Why, I was just thinking about it yesterday, as I do every time I urinate into a bathroom fixture made by the manufacturer Toto (no joke).
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This is where the term “earworm” comes into play. I think people hate how when they hear the song they can’t get it out of their heads for hours.
Now that he’s explained the origin of “I bless the rains” I feel less bothered by it. In fact, instead of sounding condescending, the lyrics almost sound deep now. A corny love song about a lonely priest trying to stay celibate? WTF.
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Hmm I had always thought it was “I left the reigns down in Africa “
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Bob Lazar on drums. Howard Stern on keyboards.
“I bless the rains down in Africa.” I always thought they were saying something else. I’m not sure what, but it reminds me of this:
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I figured the song came out of a drunken bet that David Paich couldn’t put the words Kilimanjaro, Olympus, and Serengeti into a single lyric of a rock song and make it work.
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A choir mimics a thunderstorm using their hands, then they start singing…
https://www.facebook.com/viraloop/videos/1797870973843881/
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Then this should blow your mind. What late 60’s French fashion models attempting to dance to a version of the Karelia Suite as performed by Keith Emerson & The Nice looks like… and it ain’t pretty.
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As a necessary corrective - take it away Jeffster:
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annnnnd now I do too.
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They said loneliness and celibacy were the hardest things about life out there.
These missionaries, they did realize they were around other human beings, right?
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Did we talk about how the lead singer of Toto is composer John Williams son ?
I’m lost in a bbs dungeon. and i smell like a grue.
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I member that song. Do you guys member that song?
